There’s an old expression, “on his watch,” that we use to ascribe responsibility to persons in charge. On Sept. 11, 2001, four aircraft were hijacked by Saudi terrorists and crashed into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing 2,977 people – an intelligence failure that occurred on George W. Bush’s watch, though […]

I truly understand President Trump’s right to call for recounts, etc. in the states with close results. I don’t understand how a president of the USA can cast doubts on the election process. When he got elected, I read his book (“The Art of the Deal”) to try to understand his philosophy. I understand that […]

While President Trump detests being labeled “a loser,” the time has come to more accurately describe him, vis-a-vis his handling of the COVID-19 virus pandemic, as a “mass murderer.” Because of his failure to publicly acknowledge the severity of the disease, his failure to mount a coordinated federal response, his insistence that the pandemic is […]

I am angry and frustrated that we are forced to watch Donald Trump try to save face while the pandemic rages on without his leadership. If it were fun, it would be a circus. This is not fun. It is a crisis! The Republican Party needs to stand up and demand a stop to this […]

Greg Kesich wrote on Nov. 15 that great achievements of the past comes when one party controls Congress and the presidency. As an example he listed the Voting Rights Act passed during Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. However, although the Democrats were in the majority in Congress, the solid block of Southern Democrats were in effect an […]

I write this letter as a lifelong arch conservative and Roman Catholic. I’ve always regarded liberal thought as the greatest internal threat to our republic. But I believe that a greater threat to our nation than this or the old external threats of Nazism in World War II or Communism in the Cold War exists […]